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...Made in Hollywood by an Italian company, with a cast recruited from Italian actors and actresses living there, this picture differs from the ordinary export translations of U. S. films because it presents an original story, designed particularly for Italo-Americans. Technically it is inferior to Hollywood standards; the dialog in Italian is not well recorded, but it was received with enthusiasm last week by playhouses in the Italian districts of U. S. cities. The comedy is built around a young girl whom three elderly bachelors keep from committing suicide. They buy the dressmaking establishment where she used to work...
...product would be judged in comparison with the silent version Richard Barthelmess starred in a few years ago; but he could use the Barthelmess version as a model for the talkie. The new Tol'able David is an effective, bucolic melodrama, not handled well enough to keep the dialog from slowing it up but finely acted by Richard Cromwell. The story is Joseph Hergesheimer's anecdote of a frustrated young mountaineer's struggle against the enmity of a group of brutal backwoods halfwits. Most of the esthetic credit, belongs to Cameraman Teddy Tetzlaff for his presentation...
Laughter (Paramount). Donald Ogden Stewart wrote the dialog and he and Director Harry D'Arrast together wrote the story; Nancy Carroll, Frederic March, Frank Morgan act it. Since, like all good dramas, Laughter represents a total of the talents assembled for making it, it is hard to give one more credit than another, but Stewart's personality has most definitely set its stamp on the result. In Laughter for once he has not depended on his particular kind of humor. He has used a theme that has served many generations but which he symbolized in a new and satisfactory...
...seen better days?yet its often mechanical sequences are brought to life by Director Josef von Sternberg. Always aware that a moving picture ought to move, von Sternberg tells the story rapidly and often silently, so that Morocco has the effect of being a silent picture into which dialog has been woven, not the "incidental dialog" of the primitive, remade silent pictures, but incisive, necessary words, labelling and shaping the main currents of the plot. Marlene Dietrich talks with hardly a trace of accent. In her first U. S. picture she lives up to the elaborate publicity issued...
...Sovereign's curtailment of his expedition to Ireland and who (according to the playwright) could have taken England from Elizabeth had he not been given to understand that she would share the realm with him, an error in judgment which costs him his head. The long, windy dialog which he is forced to wade through-resembling the weighty prose of a Bulwer-Lytton historical drama-is spoken in an unconvincing approximation of what the playwright imagines to be Elizabethan speech. The play can have little suspense, for bright theatregoers are aware of the facts in the story...